• Chinese tourists are still accounting for nearly a third of arrivals.

• Russian, UK and German tourists record strong rises for 2018

• Australian and New Zealand arrivals down just over 1% (average) for the year

The Ministry of Tourism and Sports has announced the tourism figures for January-November 2018, providing an accurate indication of what the country can expect for year’s end numbers.

Thailand welcomed 34,431,489 international visitors, up by 7.5% over the same period of last year, generating an estimated 1.8 billion baht in tourism revenue, up by 9.8%. Despite the concerns over Chinese tourism drops in some parts of the country, the actual numbers of Chinese arrivals in 2018 has risen 7.9%.

The highlight of the results was the fact that seven countries (China, Malaysia, South Korea, Lao PDR., Japan, India, and Russia) have already generated more than one million visitor arrivals each, and three more countries (USA, Vietnam and Singapore) were set to follow suit when the full year 2018 results are finally tabulated.